Impacts of Development in El Dorado County

Modeling and Evaluating Potential Development Scenarios in a Rural California County

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Table of Contents (in slide order)

  1. Modeling and Evaluating Potential Development Scenarios in a Rural California County
  2. El Dorado County, California
  3. Hardwood Rangelands
  4. Regional Development Potential
  5. Key Questions...
  6. El Dorado County now...
  7. Fine-grained picture of landscape
  8. Imagery misses some development
  9. Combining Imagery & Parcel Data
  10. Current development - multiple sources
  11. Key Questions...
  12. What creates the future? General Plan...
  13. What creates the future? GP policies...(Canopy Retention)
  14. What creates the future? GP policies...(Stream Buffers)
  15. What creates the future? GP policies...(Slope Restrictions)
  16. What creates the future? GP policies...(Public Ownership)
  17. What creates the future? GP policies...(Discretionary Permit Review)
  18. -- and current pattern of development
  19. Simulating Development Patterns
  20. Stratification by Density Classes
  21. Constructing the Development Grid
  22. Buildout footprint in El Dorado County
  23. Key Questions...
  24. Definition of Wildland
  25. Context more than Quantity... (Acreage Loss Table)
  26. Context more than Quantity...(Current extent of Wildland Oaks)
  27. Context more than Quantity...(Buildout extent of Wildland Oaks)
  28. Current development - multiple sources
  29. Present Extent of Wildland
  30. Present Extent of Wildland Oak
  31. Buildout footprint in El Dorado County
  32. Extent at Buildout: GP policies
  33. Extent at Buildout: Ordinances
  34. Extent at Buildout: Ordinances (net gain)
  35. Extent at Buildout: Clustering
  36. Extent at Buildout: Clustering (net gain)
  37. Extent at Buildout: Kitchen Sink
  38. Extent at Buildout: Kitchen Sink (net gain)
  39. Money instead of policy...(Current Extent)
  40. Money instead of policy...(Extent at Buildout)
  41. Money instead of policy...(Parcel Acquisition)
  42. Money instead of policy...(Extent at Buildout with Acquisition)
  43. Conclusions for El Dorado Co.
  44. Take Home Lessons